Entalophora

Entalophora is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Entalophoridae.

Entalophora

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EntalophoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Tubuliporata
Vision
blindPBDB, for Stenolaemata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 167 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 129 ka.

Middle Jurassic — about 6 of 42 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 42 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 22 of 42 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 42 occurrencesPaleocene — about 8 of 42 occurrencesEocene — about 1 of 42 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesMiocene — about 4 of 42 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 42 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 42 occurrences174–169 Mya — about 2 occurrences169–163 Mya — about 4 occurrences134–128 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences128–122 Mya — about 10 occurrences122–116 Mya — about 10 occurrences116–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–52 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences52–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences23–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence168.2 Mya774 ka174 Mya0 Mya

42 occurrences of Entalophora on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

42 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

15 formations

Marnes de Fontaine-Graillere — 44.75°N, 5.52°EClayton — 32.05°N, 86.78°WPerte-du-Rhône — 45.10°N, 5.48°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.13°N, 6.77°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.90°N, 6.34°EBarre a Orbitolines — 44.57°N, 5.17°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.12°N, 5.37°EPerte-du-Rhone — 45.20°N, 5.48°ETwin Creek Limestone — 41.90°N, 110.40°WSandgate — 51.35°N, 2.08°WZone de Pierre jaune — 47.05°N, 7.08°ELondon Clay — 51.73°N, 0.48°ECaillasses de la Basse Ecarde — 49.00°N, 0.00°EBrèches rouges de Carboneras — 37.60°N, 1.32°WLithothamnium Limestone — 48.47°N, 16.30°ECarmel — 39.12°N, 110.83°WTimms Point Silt — 33.73°N, 118.28°W

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The named rock units Entalophora has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Entalophora and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Entalophora and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

531 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Entalophora, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

17 references

Each of the 42 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 5 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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Picture of Entalophora

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Commercial use
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No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lamoureux 1821